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Oh my god! They stole my idea!

posted 21 years ago by thetitanicvoyage
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Hey there,

Well well well. This is interesting. I found out about this movie a while back, and I decided to watch it...only to jump out of my seat in shock!

He he. Well, why you ask? Well...while you are all going on about how original this film is...let me tell you something. Ages ago, I wrote a short film screenplay, about a wealthy couple who want their son 're-cloned' (he was genetically modified to begin with) because he died. They are adamant that the new son not find out about this, but the son discovers his 'old' brother, and starts to hallucinate and in the end kills himself. I have just recently got it made, but this short script was floating around cyberspace for quite a while before it got picked up.

Coincidence? I wonder? Well...if you look at it from my point of view...Hollywood seems to be tapping into my brain at the moment. I have written screenplays...only to go to the cinema and find my ideas on the screen! Let me break it down for you:

Secret Window (I know...it's Stephen King...but seeming as I actually pitched this one to a mid-exec in HW, I start to wonder.)
My idea was pretty much the same, about a writer who's literary creation comes to haunt him when he kills him off. Hmm...

Alien vs. Predator. Lost cities of Antartica...metal below the ice sheets...well. When I saw the trailer, I...again...nearly died. But...then the monsters came on, and frankly, I'm glad I'm not involved with that crap. But the beginning is so similar to a script of mine...it's scary!

Godsend (as I said)

Thirteen (again, obviously a coincidence...but still weird). The first script I wrote (back in 2000) was about..a young teenage girl who wants to get with the 'cool girl' and ends up taking drugs and falling into a downward spiral. I even had the recovering alcoholic mother in there...so similar to my script, it's starting to get on my nerves.

Make your own mind up. If you're a HW exec (perhaps the one who tried to seduce me at the Beverly Hills Hotel), you're in trouble. But...I really don't mind, after all, it's great to see my creations up on screen. Even if I don't get the money. What's money anyway? ;-)

Kim

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[–] MySpotlessMind 18 years ago

If any of that is true, I'd just like to say you *really* shouldn't be proud for having thought up any part of Alien vs Predator and this movie, because they both *really* sucked. No offense.

"Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe *beep* yourself." -- The Departed

[–] anarchistteen 17 years ago

This film is unoriginal and tedious. Just because both you and whoever wrote this have similarly limited imaginations and/or mental handicaps does not mean that whichever no-name friend-of-a-friend exec you pitched this to decided to risk a copyright suit to save a few thousand dollars in writer's royalties.

>>well, if your a writer, do what i do, copywrite

You're a writer? Something in your post tells me that you're lying.

[–] iain_inkster-1 17 years ago

I hope they tap my mind.

In my mind, Indiana Jones has to wrestle a giant snake at the end of Indy 4, overcoming his fear. A happy resolution for the old geezer.

~Iain